Media Metalheads Thread III

[Agonist]

the goods. i don't think it beats gorguts though.

nah, me either.

Also, I don't remember if Ulver was discussed, but new album is good.

 

[BKC]

new watain is pretty cool

 

[Harlot]

xanthochroid - blessed he with boils is really cool symphonic black metal reminiscent of early emperor. it's pretty hard to be original in this genre but these guys pull it off really well.

i feel like i'm the only person who doesn't "get" gorguts. 2deep4me

edit: aether realm's newest album is pretty decent too

 

[Agonist]

I feel like Gorguts is one of those bands that you either like, or you don't, with no middle ground.

 

[Deschain]

i don't like tech death in general.

 

[BKC]

more recent discoveries!

arsis - a celebration of guilt (techdeath/melodeath)
evoken - a caress of the void (doom)
atrocity - todessehnsucht (techdeath)
graveland - carpathian wolves (black)
nokturnal mortum - Голос сталi/the voice of steel (black/folk/symphonic)
arcturus - aspera hiems symfonia (black/symphonic)
vargavinter - frostfödd (melodic black)
garden of shadows - oracle moon (death/doom/melodeath)
dark lunacy - the diarist (melodeath/symphonic)

will listen to ulcerate soon!

 

[TEA_DEMON]

you can also very easily like only some of gorguts's albums, since their style varies significantly between albums.

also tech death in general is pretty hit or miss, so.

 

[Deschain]

more recent discoveries!

arsis - a celebration of guilt (techdeath/melodeath)
evoken - a caress of the void (doom)

that Arsis album is my favorite DM album by a fair margin. get A Diamond for Disease and ignore the rest of their discography.

get EVERYTHING by Evoken. one of the best funeral doom bands around, and for years.

 

[Agonist]

that Arsis album is my favorite DM album by a fair margin. get A Diamond for Disease and ignore the rest of their discography.

get EVERYTHING by Evoken. one of the best funeral doom bands around, and for years.

Anlipnes is personally one of my favorite funeral doom bands.

 

[Deschain]

why are they not on what.

 

[Agonist]

Probably because they're a rather obscure band that I stumbled upon a few years back.

 

[Deschain]

looks like they only have a couple demos?

 

[Deschain]

all this bullshit with Syria has me thinking of The End.

Saviour Machine might not be "metal" by some people's calculations, but fuck that just listen to this awesome band.

for example:

people with access to paradise should check them out.

 

[sora13]

Been really enjoying Dream Theater lately, maybe because I really like the tempo of their songs or because I can't listen to it without my parents hating me...who knows

 

[BKC]

If you like Dream Theater, try Opeth and Between the Buried and Me, they do the progressive thing DT does except with way less cheese. Start with Blackwater Park and Colors. There's a ton of great shit in the genre that's overall better than these two but they're still very solid and a good introduction of sorts.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

or you could try non-growly bands like circus maximus, vanden plas, or ayreon if you're not into growls.

 

[sora13]

Oh I'm quite familiar with Opeth and BTBAM. Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy unclean vocals as much as the next guy as I myself have been learning to scream for 3 months or so, but I just tend to enjoy some of the more technical instrumental bands with clean vocals to change it up, be it power metal or progressive metal. I'll give another example:

Yes, they ARE a Christian band(for the record I am not Christian) and have some "cheese" factor, but this song still rules hard. I don't think anyone can deny that this song has excellent instrumentation.

TEA_DEMON, I'll be sure to check those out.

 

[Arcticblast]

If you like that, I have a feeling you'll like Pathosray a lot. Not as technically intense, but a lot better.

 

[Deschain]

Extol ftw.

 

[Agonist]

Svart Crown is pretty good imo, nice blackened death metal.

 

[Clicky Pen]

New Skeletonwitch single owns bones, other arsis albums aren't that bad just give them a shot, see you after the rest of that album comes out thread.

oh and agreedo on svart crown, almost forgot that

 

[BKC]

Valtari - Fragments of a Nightmare
Fractal Gates - Beyond the Self
are both pretty cool prog melodeath.

Averse Sefira - Homecoming's March is bm and it is sooo good

will listen to Svart Crown!

 

[BKC]

Bumping with some new stuff I found

Fanisk - Insularum, really good ambient/symphonic bm.

Lord Mantis - Pervertor is pretty filthy black/sludge.

War - Total War is brutally raw bm from a few guys in other notable bands (all I remember off the top of my head is the dude from Hypocrisy).

Oh and Vermis is great.

 

[Harlot]

Rorcal - Vilagvege is really cool black metal-y sludge. it's gr8, aoty material

Deschain when does your radio show start again / if it has started, where do i view it?

 

[doomvendingmachine]

Oathbreaker - Eros|Anteros

The primary genres on rym for this are hardcore punk and crust punk, and it certainly has a lot of -core to it, but to my ears this band plays primarily sludge on the slower songs and black metal on the faster songs (like the one linked above). Really cool band, with some awesome female vox.